Sticky Tape Tutorial

Step 1

Open up your image and paste onto a new, white background, or paste onto the layout you want to add it to or whatever. I’m using this:

Step 2

Go to ‘Layers’ > ‘New Raster Layer’, and change the ‘Opacity’ to 40 before clicking ‘Ok’.

Step 3

Click , and draw a small rectangle on one of the corners in your picture:

Step 4

Now click and fill the selection a light shade of grey, or whatever colour you’d like your tape to be.

Step 5

Press ‘Ctrl’ and hold down whilst you press ‘D’ to deselect your tape. Then go to ‘Effects’ > ‘Geometric Effects’ > ‘Wave’, and copy these settings before pressing ‘Ok’:

Step 6

Okay, now your tape should have slightly jagged edges. Right click your image and choose ‘Copy’ (not ‘Copy merged’) to have your tape for the other corners.

Step 7

Click . Then on your image, click and hold the second tiny square in the middle and drag your tape digaonally across the corner of your photo.

Step 8

Now use to position the tape on your image, and ‘Paste as new layer’ to add another piece of tape to your image. Here’s my finished result:

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